Since this referred to my replies, I should mention that newer versions of Cygwin should allow pasting accented characters (sans the accents) to console windows. Igor
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > I suggest you use rxvt since the Cygwin "terminal" appers to be > broken for that. I don't know if it ever worked, but it never > did since I started with 1.3.10. I now use 1.5.3. I reported > it. See > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00048.html > > and follow > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02230.html > > , mainly Igor's replies: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02301.html > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02324.html > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Lukasz Kosewski wrote: > > > The characters DISPLAY fine, when I am doing ls on a folder > > with accents and umlauts, everything displays fine. With tab > > completion, I can complete the accented names. But I cannot > > TYPE them. No matter what key combinations I try, I cannot > > find any way to TYPE the special characters at the prompt. > > I cannot paste characters from notepad/mozilla into the > > window either, nothing happens when I try. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/